A collection of unnatural tales - spooky, ghostly, spirits, superstitions, myths, hauntings and the like. The tales of the supernatural. Many of these old tales come from the land of Malaysia - the Ghosts of Malaysia.

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Old Capitol Cinema

Old Capitol Cinema

A man
relates some of his spooky and frightening experiences while working in the old
Capitol Cinema.

I remember
as a teenager my friends and I would spend our time at the many cinemas in the
late 1970s. Apart from cinema shows, we had a great time chit-chatting among
ourselves and of course trying to pick up girls (not very successful....)

Ah Fook who at
that time, was working as an assistant manager at the Capitol cinema at
Seremban in Negeri Sembilan. As an assistant manager he also had to work as a
cashier at the ticketing booth and as the ticketing attendant when some staff
were resigned or quit. Over time he told us of his most spooky and frightening experiences
working at the movie house.

Photo of Capitol cinema
in Seremban (by twolight.blogspot.com)

In the first
incident, 2 girls were in the cinema when halfway through the show when the
first girl had to go to the toilet. She asked the other girl to accompany her was
so engrossed with the movie and merely grumbled. Both the girls entered the
female toilet and the first girl rushed to a cubicle. When she was done she
went to a basin to wash her hand when she heard flushing sound from another
cubicle in the toilet. She waited patiently for her friend but after 10
minutes, she asked her friend to hurry up at the same time she shoved the door
leading to the cubicle.

The cubicle
was empty!...puzzled the first girl quickly looked back at the series of basins
or sinks ... with the taps with water on full blast! The first girl just
screamed and screamed. It was said that the second girl did not follow her
friend as she was engrossed with the movie and the first girl was the actually
alone!

The second
incident occurred when Ah Fook was acting temporary as the ticketing attendant .
He was getting patrons to their seats when he saw in the dim lights, a long
hair lady was sitting by herself in a row of “reserved” seats. These seats were
meant specifically for ghosts or afterlife. So happen at that time it was
during Hungry Ghost Month where the ghosts and afterlife had a whole month
break to spend in this dimension. Sighing with frustration, he went silently to
the lady to inform her that could not sit that area. When he arrived he was
absolutely shocked and stunned that the lady had only half a body!... the
bottom half was not there.

Ah Fook promptly fainted and he was sick for 2
weeks. He went back to work at Capitol cinema...I guess he thought that work
was more important than ghosts.